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A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts (not least weapons), documents, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the military and war.
"The Franco-American Convention of 1800". The Journal of Modern History. XII (3): 305– 333. doi:10.1086/236487. JSTOR 1874761. S2CID 144516482. Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell (1846). Life of Stephen Decatur: A Commodore in the Navy of the United States. C. C. Little and J. Brown. Mooney, James L., ed. (1983). Dictionary of American Naval ...
19th-century period boyhood home of R.J. Reynolds, operated by Virginia Tech: Richmond County Museum: Warsaw: Richmond: Chesapeake Bay: Local history: website: Richmond National Battlefield Park: Richmond: Richmond: Central: Civil War: Commemorates over 30 American Civil War sites around Richmond Richmond Railroad Museum: Richmond: Richmond ...
The Road to 250 series is a collaboration between Made by History and Historians for 2026, a group of early Americanists devoted to shaping an accurate, inclusive, and just public memory of the ...
Steamboat Era Museum: Virginia: Kinsale: Kinsale Maritime Museum: Virginia: Mathews: Mathews Maritime Museum: Virginia: Morattico: Morattico Maritime Museum: Virginia: Newport News: Mariners' Museum and Park, the official National Maritime Museum Y Virginia: Norfolk: Hampton Roads Naval Museum: Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine: Y Virginia
The museum's permanent exhibits include material on the Battle of the Chesapeake (1781), the American Civil War in Hampton Roads, the Great White Fleet, World War II and the Cold War. Museum holdings are strong in the areas of naval prints, ship models and underwater archaeology. The Hampton Roads Naval Museum is the official repository of the ...
In 1798, an undeclared naval war with France known as the Quasi-War broke out after France escalated their seizures of American shipping. The war came to a close with the signing of the Convention of 1800 , but seizures of American shipping by France and Britain would resume during the 19th century.
The National Museum of the United States Navy, or U.S. Navy Museum for short, is the flagship museum of the United States Navy and is located in the former Breech Mechanism Shop of the old Naval Gun Factory on the grounds of the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., United States.